Wrong baron guys, he's the one who holds famous ambassador balls and spoils everyone with his trays of ferrero rocher. And gets to shag the blonde after.
It really now looks that JM is building 2 teams to be able to compete in all competitions. He wants solid cover and competition for every single position in the team. So that when he plays in the Europa or EFL or fa cup he can put a very competitive second team and keep his premiership team fresh. I can understand him doing this. He is doing it because he can.
His minimum fee in Jan was around £35M which you weren't willing to pay then - now it is gone and Benfica want around £50m, is he worth that much more now?
I've not seen much of him to comment on to be honest, I think Benfica are using us again to get him to sign a new contract in my opinion, they've done it before with other players.
They did that already in Jan when he signed a new contract removing his minimum fee. Then again you are apparently signing him for £38M according to more reputable sources so £3M more then you could have in Jan - could just chalk it off as Woodward negotiating.
Surely that would be him/his agent using us to get him a new contract from Benfica? If Benfica wanted him to sign a new contract it wouldn't make sense to pretend we were interested.